Shield is pleased to announce the availability of HA4i Version 7.1 the latest version of our High Availability product. The latest version comes with many new features and functionality of which the most important is the new apply process which provides an alternative to the existing *IBM apply. The product will continue to support the [...]
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Every wanted to be able select a number of objects from within a library and save them to a save file! Well are always saving different objects from libraries to save files so we did. As we are always saving a selective number of objects from a single library, having to type in each individual [...]
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We had not realized the new apply process for HA4i version 7.1 did not have the trigger support built in, the IBM apply which uses the APYJRNCHG commands did not need to be told to ignore trigger requests it just did it! So we had to build a new trigger disable and enable process into [...]
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Another request we felt made a lot of sense for the JRNMASTER list affected objects program was to allow the output to be written straight to a file instead of displaying through a panel group. So you can now run the request against a receiver and it will create the output in a DB file [...]
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I have just updated the JRNMASTER tool which allows the listing of objects that have entries in a journal receiver to include IFS entries. This was part of the original tools design but the implementation was not provided in the initial release. Now you can ask for either library based (*OBJ) or IFS (*IFS) entries [...]
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Ever wanted to know what objects have been updated in a particular journal receiver? Well we had a couple of requests from clients saying they would. So we have built a new option in the JRNMASTER tool which will allow you to display the objects as well as some other important information. The tool simply [...]
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We have been very quiet on the Blog front for some time now, this has been the result of some major changes to the HA4i product which we are finally in the position to mention. HA4i has continued to grow in terms of its capabilities and features, the latest release is a major upgrade from [...]
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A recent request from a client has resulted in an update to the JRNMASTER tool we have available for download. The client was having problems with files being removed from journaling by an application which they could not alter. The application could not be changed to remove the offending operation which stopped the journaling even [...]
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I had been looking around for a method to find out who was locking a specific IFS object, the problem came to light after some new programs we were developing crashed before closing the files (I thought when a program ended the file would be automatically released, but it looks like that may not be [...]
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Things are still changing and we are releasing updates to the HA4i product on a regular basis. As customers use the products they ask for changes to existing processes or ask for new ones to be added, we are also always looking for better ways to carry out some of the tasks already built into [...]
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